Starter home: Maryborough, Douglas €245,000

For the right type of buyer (singles, couples or as a starter home?), the mid-terraced and two-bedroomed house 20 Highfield could prove a perfect, snug and easily-tended fit.

Size: 82sq m (887sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 3 

Bedrooms: 2 

BER: C1

Just short of 900 sq ft, No 20 Highfield’s in a long, terraced run of Tudor-touch houses in O’Brien and O’Flynn’s Maryborough Woods development above Douglas, and is a spotless, two storey house, with each of its two first floor bedrooms en suite, one with bath, the other with shower.

Agent Florence Gabriel of Sherry FitzGerald seeks offers around €245,000 for the bright pad, which she stresses is in excellent condition.

VERDICT: A city pad, in the ‘burbs